The Road to Sexual Revolution: Carl Trueman and the Modern Self
by R J Snell, Public Discourse:
According to Carl Trueman, focusing myopically on problems with sexual morality often results in misguided responses to the sexual revolution. Instead, we must grapple with “a much deeper and wider revolution in the understanding of what it means to be a self.”
It is beyond doubt that the sexual revolution of the last sixty years has resulted in enormous social changes. Ideas that would have been judged preposterous just a decade ago are now normalized and enforced orthodoxy. Many religious and social conservatives rightly decry the terrible results for family, happiness, prosperity, and freedom, but far too many think the sexual revolution is primarily about sex, and insofar as they focus on sexual mores fail to understand the revolution adequately.
Or so argues Carl R. Trueman in his timely new book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. According to Trueman, the sexual revolution “culminating in its latest triumph—the normalization of transgenderism—cannot be properly understood until it is set within the context of a much broader transformation in how society understands the nature of human selfhood.” The sexual revolution did not cause the sexual revolution, after all, and to turn myopically to sexual morality, however well-intentioned, often results in misguided responses. Instead, to understand the sexual revolution, we must grapple with “a much deeper and wider revolution in the understanding of what it means to be a self.”
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